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Doiran Memorial

Doiran Memorial

📍 Doirani, Δοϊράνη, Grecia

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The Doiran Memorial stands near Doiran Military Cemetery, which is situated in the north of Greece close to the Macedonia border and near the south-east shore of Lake Doiran. It is approximately 3 kilometres north west of Drossato village behind and to the west of Doirani village and is reached via a farm track. From Thessaloniki take the Thessaloniki – Kilkis National Road north for approximately 70 km following the directions for the town of Kilkis until you come to a crossroads with the town of Drossato on your right. Turn left at this crossroads following the signs for Doirani Village/Lake and Customs. Continue on this road for approximately 2 km where you shall pick up the CWGC signs on the outskirts of the village that shall lead you around the village of Doirani and to Doiran Military cemetery. Continue past the cemetery for approximately 1 km following the CWGC signs up a rough track until you arrive at the Memorial. The Memorial stands on what was called Colonial Hill, and can be seen from a distance and is a landmark. The DOIRAN MEMORIAL stands roughly in the centre of the line occupied for two years by the Allies in Macedonia, but close to the western end, which was held by Commonwealth forces. It marks the scene of the fierce fighting of 1917-1918, which caused the majority of the Commonwealth battle casualties. From October 1915 to the end of November 1918, the British Salonika Force suffered some 2,800 deaths in action, 1,400 from wounds and 4,200 from sickness. The campaign afforded few successes for the Allies, and none of any importance until the last two months. The action of the Commonwealth force was hampered throughout by widespread and unavoidable sickness and by continual diplomatic and personal differences with neutrals or Allies. On one front there was a wide malarial river valley and on the other, difficult mountain ranges, and many of the roads and railways it required had to be specially constructed. The memorial serves the dual purpose of Battle Memorial of the British Salonika Force (for which a large sum of money was subscribed by the officers and men of that force), and place of commemoration for more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in Macedonia and whose graves are not known. The memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer with sculpture by Walter Gilbert. It was unveiled by Sir George Macdonogh on 25 September 1926. The memorial stands near DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY. The cemetery (originally known as Colonial Hill Cemetery No.2) was formed at the end of 1916 as a cemetery for the Doiran front. The graves are almost entirely those of officers and men of the 22nd and 26th Divisions and largely reflect the fighting of April and May 1917 (the attacks on the Petit-Couronne), and 18-19 September 1918 (the attacks on Pip Ridge and the Grand-Couronne). In October and November 1918, after the final advance, a few burials were added by the 25th Casualty Clearing Station. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields and from some small burial grounds, the most important of which was Strumnitza British Military Cemetery, north-west of Doiran, made by the 40th Casualty Clearing Station in October and November 1918. The cemetery now contains 1,338 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 449 of them unidentified. There are also 45 Greek and one French war graves.

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Deceased (2.167)

JM

J Monaghan

1915

Doiran Memorial

Charles Mason

Charles Mason

1918

Doiran Memorial

William John Tooley

William John Tooley

1893 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

SG

Sidney George Pritchard

1916

Doiran Memorial

GG

Gerald George Bull

1886 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

Preston Anthony Augustus Enright

Preston Anthony Augustus Enright

1918

Doiran Memorial

Albert Edward Brooks

Albert Edward Brooks

1883 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

William Kirkman

William Kirkman

1917

Doiran Memorial

GW

Gwilym Williams

1918

Doiran Memorial

AG

Anthony Gilmartin

1917

Doiran Memorial

JS

J Shennan

1917

Doiran Memorial

FD

Frank Donald Watts

1917

Doiran Memorial

TJ

Thomas Joseph Gara

1915

Doiran Memorial

JC

Joseph Cattell Stephens

1918

Doiran Memorial

WL

Walter Long

1917

Doiran Memorial

MH

Maurice Harding

1918

Doiran Memorial

WF

William Frederick Robbins

1917

Doiran Memorial

WE

W E Jackson

1917

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WT

William Thomas Astbury

1893 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

EH

Ernest Hartley

1917

Doiran Memorial

EL

E Langley

1917

Doiran Memorial

George Ernest Gladstone Hill

George Ernest Gladstone Hill

1917

Doiran Memorial

JD

Joseph Devine

1918

Doiran Memorial

EL

Edward Lynch

1915

Doiran Memorial

PR

Peter Riley

1916

Doiran Memorial

BF

Basil Frederic Bishop

1918

Doiran Memorial

FW

F Walters

1918

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TP

T Ponton

1917

Doiran Memorial

AW

Alfred William Andrews

1889 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JR

James Robertson

1917

Doiran Memorial

JL

James Lenihan

1916

Doiran Memorial

Henry Willetts

Henry Willetts

1918

Doiran Memorial

JW

James William Jock Cooper

1916

Doiran Memorial

FB

Frederick Broadhead

1917

Doiran Memorial

JG

John Grimshaw

1916

Doiran Memorial

Reginald Turner

Reginald Turner

1897 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

AL

Albert Lewis Harding

1917

Doiran Memorial

HF

Harry Fogg

1918

Doiran Memorial

TB

Thomas Box

1917

Doiran Memorial

WH

William Henry Cook

1894 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

Stephen William Machin

Stephen William Machin

1891 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

Edgar Stanley Sargent

Edgar Stanley Sargent

1887 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

HT

H Thomas

1918

Doiran Memorial

TS

T Salt

1918

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TK

Thomas Kilgallon

1916

Doiran Memorial

DS

D Stein

1917

Doiran Memorial

Albert Hanson

Albert Hanson

1899 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JB

John Bucuris

1894 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

Thomas Penruddocke

Thomas Penruddocke

1917

Doiran Memorial

IF

I. F. G. Rogers

1916

Doiran Memorial

Christopher Cookson

Christopher Cookson

1893 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

Private, East Lancashire Regiment

BJ

B Jones

1918

Doiran Memorial

FH

F H Hill

1917

Doiran Memorial

GH

George Hinton

1917

Doiran Memorial

JN

James Nimmo Bunney

1884 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

JH

J Hicks

1881 – 1915

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FH

Frank H Dougall

1916

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H J Watson

H J Watson

1917

Doiran Memorial

CJ

Christopher James Cole

1917

Doiran Memorial

JT

J Teehan

1916

Doiran Memorial

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